Disability pensioners unlikely to face medicals

By Noel Towell
Updated April 24 2018 - 9:41pm, first published January 22 2016 - 2:26pm

Very few of Australia's 814,000 disability pensioners will be asked to prove they are still sick or injured enough to be entitled to the welfare payment, the National Audit Office has found.

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